Paper Info
Title
Property-Based TPM Virtualization
Abstract
Today, virtualization technologies and hypervisors celebrate their rediscovery. Especially migration of virtual machines (VMs) between hardware platforms provides a useful and cost-effective means to manage complex IT infrastructures. A challenge in this context is the virtualization of hardware security modules like the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) since the intended purpose of TPMs is to securely link software and the underlying hardware. Existing solutions for TPM virtualization, however, have various shortcomings that hinder the deployment to a wide range of useful scenarios. In this paper, we address these shortcomings by presenting a flexible and privacy-preserving design of a virtual TPM that in contrast to existing solutions supports different approaches for measuring the platform's state and for key generation, and uses property-based attestation mechanisms to support software updates and VM migration. Our solution improves the maintainability and applicability of hypervisors supporting hardware security modules like TPM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85886-7_1
ISC
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual tpm,hardware platform,property-based tpm virtualization,tpm virtualization,useful scenario,virtual machine,software updates,underlying hardware,vm migration,virtualization technology,hardware security module,cost effectiveness,trusted platform module
Virtualization,Hardware virtualization,Virtual machine,Hardware security module,Computer science,Hypervisor,Trusted Platform Module,Full virtualization,Operating system,Maintainability,Embedded system
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5222
0302-9743
21
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.23
13
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmad-reza Sadeghi15463334.69
Christian Stüble231829.52
Marcel Winandy383148.15
Tzong-chen Wu474296.54
Chin-Laung Lei51686201.07
Vincent Rijmen62183229.70
dertsai lee7211.23